Didn't Faint All The Way

The diner was busy, and the drinks were flowing—but no one offered the teenagers any, and neither of them pressed their luck by asking for anything they shouldn’t be able to buy. Karr’s brain was bouncing around in his skull, and his hand felt hot where he’d held the staff. He was deeply relieved when his droid returned with large mugs full of water and the promise of runyip cheese and crackers to come.

He downed half his mug in a few seconds and felt a bit better right away, but the aching fog of the vision still lingered. He rubbed his eyes with the back of his hands and tried not to moan.

“So what did you see, exactly?” Maize asked him.

“Are you going to be all right, sir?”

He answered RZ-7 first. “I’m good. This one wasn’t so bad, actually. I didn’t faint all the way or anything!”

Maize poured some of her own water into his mug to top it off. “That is great. Were you able to get anything else from the vision? Or just confirmation?”

He beamed at them both. “I got names.”

“Names? When I gave you my father’s drafting tool, you mostly mumbled about what he looked like. You got names this time?”

“Two of them. One was named Kenobi and the other was General…Skywalker, I think!” he said excitedly.


- Force Collector, Chapter 7